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More Americans are turning to surrogacy to build their families, as the practice becomes more common and more publicly discussed.

Why it matters: As surrogacy becomes more visible and accessible, ethical, legal and cultural tensions become harder to ignore...

This is the first part of the 14th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by...

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.23.2015
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The students in Anthony James’s basement insectary at the University of California, Irvine, knew they’d broken the laws...

By Debora Spar, Fortune | 11.21.2015
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There’s something funny about the U.S. market for eggs. No, not the kind that spring from chickens and...

By Kevin Loria, Tech Insider | 11.20.2015
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DNA can tell us all kinds of things.

Genetic information can be used to uniquely identify a specific...

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 11.20.2015
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Lost in the news about the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of genetically engineered salmon on Thursday...

By Tanya Lewis, Business Insider | 11.19.2015
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On a warm September afternoon on the verdant campus of Long Island's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an elite...

By Andy Newman, The New York Times | 11.19.2015
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In the first decision in California to address a dispute over the fate of frozen embryos after a...

By Liz Stinson, WIRED | 11.18.2015
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“Here. Smell this.”

Effendi Leonard smiles and pushes a vial of pale, cloudy liquid toward me, like a...

By Nathaniel Comfort, Aeon | 11.17.2015
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For centuries, human hereditary improvement was a problem in social, not biological, engineering: how to persuade or coerce...